Patents by Inventor James Andrew Sullivan

James Andrew Sullivan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8241996
    Abstract: A method and structures for manufacturing multi-layered substrates. The method includes providing a donor substrate, which has a first deflection characteristic. The donor substrate has a backside, a face, a cleave region, and a thickness of material defined between the cleave region and the face. The method includes bonding the face of the donor substrate to a face of the handle substrate. The method includes coupling a backing substrate to the backside of the donor substrate to form a multilayered structure. The backing substrate is adequate to cause the first deflection characteristic of the donor substrate to be reduced to a predetermined level. The predetermined level is a suitable deflection characteristic for the thickness of material to be transferred onto the face of a handle substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Harry Robert Kirk, James Andrew Sullivan
  • Patent number: 7811901
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a silicon on substrate structure having smooth edge regions. The method includes providing a silicon donor substrate having a surface region and a backside region. A substrate thickness is provided between the surface region and the backside region. The method includes co-implanting a plurality of first particles through the surface region into a vicinity of a cleave region and a plurality of second particles through the surface region into the vicinity of the cleave region. The cleave region defines a thickness of material to be removed between the cleave region and the surface region. The surface region of the silicon donor substrate is joint to a handle substrate to form a coupled substrate structure. The coupled substrate structure is then processed using a thermal treatment process and placed into a cleaving chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Philip James Ong, Harry Kirk, James Andrew Sullivan
  • Patent number: 7772088
    Abstract: A multilayered substrate structure comprising one or more devices, e.g., optoelectronic, integrated circuit. The structure has a handle substrate, which is characterized by a predetermined thickness and a Young's modulus ranging from about 1 Mega Pascal to about 130 Giga Pascal. The structure also has a thickness of substantially crystalline material coupled to the handle substrate. Preferably, the thickness of substantially crystalline material ranges from about 100 microns to about 5 millimeters. The structure has a cleaved surface on the thickness of substantially crystalline material and a surface roughness characterizing the cleaved film of less than 200 Angstroms. At least one or more optoelectronic devices is provided on the thickness of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Harry Robert Kirk, James Andrew Sullivan
  • Patent number: 7598153
    Abstract: A method for fabricating bonded substrate structures, e.g., silicon on silicon. In a specific embodiment, the method includes providing a thickness of single crystal silicon material transferred from a first silicon substrate coupled to a second silicon substrate. In a specific embodiment, the second silicon substrate has a second surface region that is joined to a first surface region from the thickness of single crystal silicon material to form of an interface region having a first characteristic including a silicon oxide material between the thickness of single crystal silicon material and the second silicon substrate. The method includes subjecting the interface region to a thermal process to cause a change to the interface region from the first characteristic to a second characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, James Andrew Sullivan, Sien Giok Kang, Philip James Ong, Harry Robert Kirk, David Jacy, Igor Malik